Illusory Source Dream Abyss · The Labyrinth of Illusion and Reality (I)
The fog rolled and surged, like a thin veil woven by countless threads of fate, wrapping around us layer by layer from the depths of the void.
The moment Qin Yu and Yan Yue stepped into the Dream Abyss, the surrounding light distorted, everything trembled like water, and space seemed to collapse and expand as if in a nightmare. A massive vortex array appeared beneath their feet, interwoven with countless Void Source, faintly revealing four characters:
Void Origin Illusion Flow
"This... is not right." Yan Yue spoke softly, her long, white hair swaying gently in the dim light. Ripples appeared on the halo of her Fate Soul on her forehead, as if issuing a warning.
The next instant, a sharp sound of space cracking exploded from all directions!
A dozen or so figures—all Qin Yu's past opponents—emerged from the spatial rift. They were clad in phantom light armor, their figures twisted and blurred, yet each exuded the oppressive aura of real combat power—there was Mirror Abyss Yu's Destroying Consciousness Slashing Light, Liang Jichen's Name-Splitting Soul Brush, and the Nightmare Clan's Wang Chi's final forbidden Netherworld Annihilation Handprint.
"An illusion?" Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly. He gently raised his hand, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword automatically hovered in mid-air, with annihilation fire patterns like black stars absorbing moisture swirling around its blade.
He swung his sword and delivered the first strike:
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Void in a Single Thought!
The black light blade sliced through the void, as if severing the threads of the world's "concept." A "wall of causal light" swept past him, forcibly tearing a crack in the illusion space!
The illusory enemy trembled violently, but quickly recovered. Yan Yue the opportunity, and the Brush of Fate Soul appeared in her hand, writing in one stroke:
The Annihilation Abyss Dawn Canon: Book Pages Cover the Void!
Pale sunlight flowed from her brush tip, and wherever her pen touched, illusions began to be "rewritten." A "plot interruption talisman" pierced the chest of one of the phantom enemies, causing its "existence script" to begin to break!
But at that moment, the scene before Yan Yue's eyes changed drastically—she witnessed Qin Yu being instantly swallowed up by a "tide of Void Source," his soul shattered, and his sea of consciousness annihilated!
"No!!!"
She tried to rush over, but found herself unable to move at all; her Fate Soul seemed to be frozen.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Qin Yu frowned, standing amidst the mirrored encirclement, when he suddenly heard Yan Yue's cries.
"This is... a pseudo-dangerous organization written by the Scroll of Fate!" He immediately realized that his feelings for Yan Yue had been written into the "plot trap," becoming the key to breaking the deadlock.
He formed a mudra with his hands:
Fate Cause Master Seal, the Master Book, Cause Severing Name!
- The pen is life, the soul is the book. With a single stroke, the logic of the "enemy name" in the illusion is severed, and the illusionary enemy's recognition structure of "Qin Yu's true form" is forcibly annihilated!
At the same time, a golden wheel of light appeared in Yan Yue's sea of consciousness, and a skill she had never encountered before flowed forth:
The Consciousness Abyss Silent Lock!
-The Soul Annihilation Pen rewrites the logic of the Dream Abyss Master, repositioning the "core of the script" of the Void Origin Illusion Flow, causing the logic of the illusionary plot to become disordered and the script to collapse!
Space shattered! The illusory enemies were instantly pierced through like bubbles.
After Qin Yu severed the last mirror image with his sword, he leaped to Yan Yue's side. The two looked at each other, their eyes revealing unspoken meaning.
"Yue'er, I'm still here."
"I know." Yan Yue gently, the Brush of Fate Soul had been withdrawn, but the lingering illusory light of Xi Bai remained at the tip of the brush.
A corner of the Dream Abyss mist was torn open, revealing a "floating bridge of destiny" leading to the next dream realm. Floating on the bridge were "fragments of the story" like pages of light, which were burning away one by one.
The cracks in the dream healed, and the mist surged in again.
Qin Yu and Yan Yue stepped onto the "Floating Bridge of Destiny" leading to the second node, below which lay Endless Abyss, like Annihilation river of cause and effect. Above them, a "Scroll of Fate" with its pages constantly turning floated in mid-air, each page projecting the most painful, desperate, and terrifying moments of their past experiences.
Scenes from the past, including Elder Qingyan's death in battle, Yan Yue's perilous situation, and Yunyi's being bound by the Burning Soul, appeared beneath Qin Yu's feet.
Before Yan Yue's eyes were also reflected the image of herself being slain by Liang Jichen, the destruction of the Annihilation Origin Hall, and the scene of "Qin Yu's fall".
"This is an emotional trap," Yan Yue said softly, her voice icy. "The Heart of Dream Abyss wants to use our sorrow to write a new logical script."
At that very moment, the Scroll of the Heavens suddenly unfurled, emitting a deep, booming sound!
--The complete remake of the Pseudo-Crisis Arena is now available!
Hundreds of phantom enemies have appeared!
They all wore the mask of "Annihilation Logic," half Qin Yu and half Yan Yue, blurring the lines between truth and falsehood, making them impossible to distinguish.
"Who are you?" "You're fake!" "Are you me?"
In the illusion, Yan Yue said to Qin Yu, "I am the one in your heart; the real her died in that battle long ago."
In the illusion, Qin Yu said to Yan Yue, "I am the one who truly traveled here with you; the other person is an obsession you created."
The entire pontoon bridge shook violently, and emotions surged like a tide.
Yan Yue suddenly closed her eyes, standing still in the mist. Her own Fate Soul wheel appeared in her sea of consciousness, and the Annihilation Dawn Brush slowly materialized. She abruptly wrote a line of destiny:
The Life-Annihilating Dawn Codex: The Annihilation Order Cause Lock!
- Fate's name is locked, emotions' causes are sealed! All illusions within the scroll of fate, like unnamed things, return to nothingness!
Behind Yan Yue, a "Wheel of Dawn Abyss" rose up, and countless strokes of dawn light pierced through the void. Each stroke was like a blade cutting through the chapters of destiny, instantly annihilating dozens of illusions into dust.
Qin Yu, meanwhile, activated his Origin Soul power and unleashed a sword strike!
Silent Origin - Boundless Ashes!
- Black flames rage, a single thought severs consciousness, an entire realm burns souls!
As the sword was drawn, a "black and silent fire pattern" spread from Qin Yu's feet toward the sky. The scorching and annihilating energy carved a chain of magic arrays in the space, as if burning the "Fate Scroll Projection" to ashes. The illusions continued to explode, and the void shattered like a skylight!
The two stood back to back, their defenses constantly weakening, but the power of their soul resonance blossomed even more brilliantly at this moment!
At that moment, the Scroll of Fate trembled violently, and the last page was turned, revealing a huge illusory enemy—a composite of the illusions of Yan Yue and Qin Yu, mixed with their auras and techniques.
"They're serious now," Qin Yu said in a deep voice.
"Then let's do it for real," Yan Yue replied.
The two of them shouted in unison:
Annihilation Abyss Opens Silence + Master Book: Cause Severing Name!
A "Ring of Recognition Annihilation Judgment" interwoven with dawn white and silent black rose from beneath the two of them, like a bell in the starry sky, and suddenly covered the fused body!
The fused entity suddenly twisted, exploded, and reconstructed violently, ultimately disintegrating into the void like a script collapsing.
--The scroll of destiny is shattered; the second node of the Illusory Source Dream Abyss has been cleared!
The bridge collapsed, revealing a "Dream Source Light Gate".
Yan Yue said softly, "The next step, a deeper dream... awaits us."
Qin Yu nodded, took her hand, and the two stepped into the depths of the dream together.
Passing through the Dream Source Light Gate, Qin Yu and Yan Yue stepped into the "Plain of Severed Thought," a place suspended between the void and dreams.
This place has no physical ground, but is composed of floating "fragments of Fate Soul," forming a nebula-like floating island. The fragments float in the mist, and are covered with broken bridges of consciousness.
Beneath their feet lay the microcosm of their own Fate Soul — Qin Yu's feet were the Silent Heart Starfield of the "Annihilation Origin Heart Canon"; Yan Yue's feet were the Abyss of Dawn Feathers of the "Annihilation Dawn Wheel Ring".
Just as the two were moving forward, suddenly—
The deep activation of the Void Origin Illusion Flow: The Dream Soul Reverse Construction Array is activated!
The entire area suddenly changed drastically. Countless fragments of Fate Soul began to spontaneously recombine. The Lord of Illusions miswrote and overlapped the ** Fate Soul trajectories** of the two, creating two completely new "fake Qin Yu" and "fake Yan Yue".
These two avatars not only possessed the original's skills, but also incorporated the other's Fate Soul attributes. Qin Yu's avatar controlled the Dawn Light, Yan Yue's avatar radiated the divine might of the Silent Wheel.
"The opposite of the Life-Annihilating Dawn Codex..." Yan Yue murmured softly, her brows furrowing.
"This is a byproduct of the failed Fate Soul mapping," Qin Yu said coldly. "If we allow them to complete the fusion, we ourselves will lose our right to 'truly exist.'"
-Illusionary Qin Yu releases his skill:
Dawn Wheel Soul Rend - Reversal of Fate
Using the light of dawn as a pen, the enemy's "causal motivation" is sealed within the annihilating patterns of light.
Thousands of light threads erupted in the void, outlining the annihilation wheel's reversal ring, each light pen striking directly at the foundation of Qin Yu's soul.
Illusion·False Yan Yue releases its skill:
Silent Consciousness Burns Soul, Void Master Seizes Source
Transform into a virtual master of consciousness, and extract Soul Master.
The phantom of "Annihilation Abyss Dawn Phoenix" flashed in the vortex of consciousness, and the wings of illusion ignited dream fire, scorching the soul chain of Yan Yue.
Qin Yu roared, stepping onto the Fate Seal Star Platform, his right hand pointing like a sword!
Fate Ring - Linked-Stage Judgment!
It uses a chain of life stages to solidify and lock the enemy's Fate Soul.
Interlocking star-studded life patterns rose from the ground, transforming into hundreds of magical seals that forcibly suppressed the illusion of the fake Yan Yue within the "Dream Components" layer.
Yan Yue calmed her mind and focused her soul, then gently parted her lips. "The Consciousness Abyss Silent Lock!"
Block the enemy's source of awareness, rewrite the trajectory projection, and reclaim the true location.
A "Dawn White Soul Lock" rose from Yan Yue's palm, the chain pulling at the Fate Abyss, wrapping around the core of the illusionary Qin Yu's life pattern inch by inch, ultimately suppressing its fictitious source of consciousness to collapse.
The two skills collided, tearing the space around them!
The two phantom bodies roared violently, but their Fate Soul ultimately failed to overlap, annihilating into countless logical remnants that returned to chaos.
Meanwhile, the Origin of Fate Soul began to collapse, with all the fragments collapsing towards the center, revealing the next node channel: the Gate of the Mirror Abyss Sea of Consciousness.
Yan Yue whispered, "From now on, with every step, the illusion will resemble us more and more."
Qin Yu glanced sideways and smiled, "Then I'll use 'truth' to shatter it."
The two stepped hand in hand into the next abyss of dreams. Mist surged and illusions layered. Waves of dreams rolled backward beneath their feet, as if the whole world had been turned upside down, the sky had sunk into the earth, and their consciousness had been dragged into chaos.
Yan Yue's figure seemed to be dragged into a dream rift, surrounded by "past phantoms" she had once fought against—the Starry Sky Secret Master she had annihilated with a single sword strike, the Silent Fire Dream Spirit she had defeated, and even the Ultimate Source Dream Calamity had transformed into a "resurrected phantom," surrounding her.
"None of this is real..." Yan Yue's brows glowed, and a ray of light flowed from her eyes. The "Fate Soul - Annihilation Abyss First Light" trembled slightly, resonating with the "Pen of Fate" deep within her soul!
At the same time--
The situation on Qin Yu's side was even more perilous.
The dream battlefield he stepped into was reconstructed into the Abyss of the Severed Wheel —a reappearance of the battlefield where he had almost perished. It was the scene where Mirror Abyss Yu unleashed the Battle of Sealing Fate Locks, but now it had transformed into more than a dozen "pseudo- Mirror Abyss Shadows," each wielding the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, and unleashing the Fate Chain Technique, which was extremely similar to his own.
"An illusion... it's quite convincing." Qin Yu slowly closed his eyes. The next second, his Innate Martial Soul, the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram, appeared behind him. A pitch-black soul diagram slowly rotated, and countless chains of Fate-Cause fell from the diagram, burning through the origin of the dream!
Just then, the power of the Azure Ring quietly emerged.
--Azure Ring, Spirit Filth Annihilates Heaven!
Qin Yu extended his right hand into the void, and a dark blue light instantly transformed into a pillar of annihilation, piercing through his sea of consciousness!
The power of spiritual defilement is the corrupt logic at the end of all phenomena, the final embodiment of the complete decay of concepts and cognition. When this technique is released, the illusions in all directions immediately exhibit the "soul collapse" effect, and the pseudo- Mirror Abyss Shadow's entire soul network shows broken veins, as if it has been rewritten by the corrupt will reflected in the image.
Yan Yue sensed Qin Yu's power response and suddenly her Spiritual Sense surged, summoning the power of the third level of her Fate Soul, the Final Origin Annihilation Breath, which resonated with the "Annihilation Dawn Silent Wheel" within her body!
She uttered a soft cry, "Dawn Wheel Reversal - Annihilation Order Cause Lock!"
In an instant, a halo of radiant white light rose from behind Yan Yue, like the rising sun tearing through the dream mist, freezing the "causal source" of all illusions instantly!
The enemy's shadow exploded into illusory ashes!
At this moment, the illusory core of the "Scroll of Fate" Yan Yue's eyes, and she unhesitatingly activated her Fate Soul Fusion Skill once more—
The Fate Soul Pen's Light: Destiny Unveils True Knowledge!
She used her soul-stirring pen to pierce the core logic of illusion, forcibly rewriting the core logic of the dream image.
Suddenly, the surrounding illusion tore violently apart, as if the entire dream consciousness space had been ripped in two, one half returning to nothingness and the other half collapsing into reality!
Qin Yu turned to look at Yan Yue in the void and whispered:
"She's getting stronger and stronger..."
Yan Yue simply looked at him, her eyes filled with clarity and determination after all the illusions had faded. "Because I know you will find me."
At this moment, the sea of mist in the Illusory Source Dream Abyss began to rapidly reverse, and a "core dream soul passage" gradually appeared, which was the path to the next dream image barrier.
But the hidden "Dream Source Logic Monster" is about to appear, and the battle that follows is far from over.